September Puzzles and Solutions

Crossword

Across

• 6 Two hot drinks next to posh stately home (7)
• 7 It could be tragic if ricochets occur near young heads (5)
• 9 Go with a hollow look (4)
• 10 Responsible for new ale bars struggling (10)
• 11 They complain as rugby players run around hospital (8)
• 13 Inspire trendy hothead with beer (6)
• 15 Valley I located after packing (4)
• 17 Suppose some colleague’s sick (5)
• 18 Papa takes on mature servant (4)
• 19 Thingamajig is initially what I would briefly acquire (6)
• 20 Public relations against the Islamic State can lead to extremists becoming pure (8)
• 23 Characters in dhow or ship fulsomely showing admiration (10)
• 26 Inmates of Belsen freed otherwise (4)
• 27 Struggling to get virtual monarch? (5)
• 28 Visualized utilitarian processing plant (7)

Down

• 1 Sleep with family circle’s tableware (6,4)
• 2 Hippy movement recognised broadcast era (3,3)
• 3 Shock comeback for madmen (4)
• 4 Six counties met Tyneside with awkward spin. They’re bowled over! (8)
• 5 Make river flow uphill for star (4)
• 6 Argue for fifty in notes (5)
• 8 For the audience you will record festive offering (4,3)
• 12 Run around wide expanse (5)
• 14 Theory he posits all over the place is hopelessly vacuous to start with (10)
• 16 Swim with nothing on in rough sea, fatty! (7)
• 17 They’re supposed to turn on parts of guitars, perhaps (1-7)
• 21 I replace lawns, not blood (2-4)
• 22 Secretly reckon a salary’s on the nose (5)
• 24 Runners starting to sprain knees in stilettos (4)
• 25 Trouble coalesces when energy is sapped (4)